Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-07-09
MARY JAMES TRAVELS.
WITH DlCKEY UNDER HER ARM SHE
GOES ALL ABOUT LONDON.
Their Pilgrimage Is Somewhat Out OF
the Usual Line-.hey See More OF IN"
Modern Portion Of the City Thnn the
Ancient. and Mary Jane Tells About H.
Special Correspondence

any peunes'"
Nary penny" said she, otfhandedly
what do You want with itf Where's your
letter of credit"
Don't be 50 unsalted. please" said 1; ave
got t. fee a lot Of people today, and want
the money IN small doses"
You want 1t in fee hle amounts, as 1t
were, said she, iumming as usual.
Il want it." SAID |, sharply, "and that's
enough"
oh" said she, sarrasticsIly, If that's
enough, why do YOU ask for any more
We lowered while longer, and then |
compromised by taking all her pennies, and
went out, Dickcy remarking she sat down
on the top of the bus:
They say the typical Engllshman is only
found III the higher circles, and perhaps he Is,
but the typical American is found all over
England wherever there is a British subject
touching his hat and waiting for something
he hasn't earned"
The fee system, or rather fee sentiment, i'll
England, | think, does more to degrade the
lower classes than any other one thing this
side Of'the remnant of feudaliSm IN royalty.
Men who, similarly situated in America,
would knock u man down for offering them a
tip. take it gladly here, and do 1t with ser
Witty that is painful To our independent IDEAS.
We have the system i'll America, it Is true,
but there the recipient receives IL with Ger
tain air OF right, which makes one feel that
the laborer Is worthy of his hire. while in
England they fawn and Crlnge and bow and
touch their . ats till YOU want to take a club
and break head or two | don't know how
high up they are found, but | know when ]
went TO the queens stables at Buckinghari
palace the liveriei slave in the Office told Dc
l could not get in until | got ticket. and
could only get that by writing letter to the
master of the horse. lstarted off back to my
quarters to do that, when he sidled al ound
and told me it was against the rules hut he
thought he could find me ticket. Iput up
a shilling, and be went to the desk and fixed
me i'll few moments The shilling cost more
than ali envelope and stamp. but it was more
immediate in its effect. The policemen " Ill
also take anything except prisoner" sug
gested Dickey, looking over my shouider> you
offer, aud they don't appear to feel any the
less manly Tor 1t. Lots Of waters at hotels
and restaurants get their pay that way, and
it is even ia private houses. IL Is told
that the Duke of Argyle, who is not rich
(except i'll long hue of useless ancestry,
wantei To employ butler, and would not
agree to pay the man more than half
wages, Because, he told him,
he had very many guests, and the butler
always had his tips from them. Many hotel
cad restaurant walters pay the proprietors
I,r the privilege Of bleeding their guests,
End the head porter of one Of the best London
LDtels Is reported as paying S2,ouO a year for
his place, besides a present Of a fine pair OF
horses 10 the landlord. A Pullman car por-
ter in comparison with this oriental mag
nifcence, becomes but little better than Il
tramp. The whole business is legalized beg
gary, pure AMI simple and is a direct out
growth of feudal aristocracy But enough
of this on paper. Come to England if you
want to see what a terrible nuisance it Is
l met woman the other day who made
me feel good all over. She was not very
pretty, and she wasn't very young. but she
had sand in her craw, and | was glad Of IL
She happened u fall into general conversa-
ton in car. the subject being English
women had sand something about the
meek look of submission So perceptlble in
their faces and DICkey seconded my motion
Il don't quite understand" said the lady
"Why," said |, ali English women seem
to hold men as superior beings. They defer
t. them i'll all things; they wait Oh them and
for them; they coidIe them and smile for
them, and bear all sorts Of burdens for them
they sit with folded bands, content to be dis
posed OF US may suit the fancy of lordly man,
and they make me tired American women
are not that way at all. They may not have
the right to vote and make laws, but they
make the plen do a good deal Of. the submis-
sion business and keep things pretty evenly
balanced"
You are quite correct about the English
women" she said, with Susan b. Anthony
snap to her voice, but they will not be so
always. They are beginning to appreciate
woman's true position, and the time will come
when English women will show to English
men that Englishmen will have to go away
from England to play The deity"
She went ahead at this rate for some time,
and, though didn't find out who she was,
have hopes that this leaven will leaven the
whole lump and female Magma Charta will
some day lee filed among the British archives
In "a line with this: | went over to the
house Of commons one day, thinking, OF
l fcufi iilc USUAL Itf1lllt
the speaker; but, 10 and behold, they stuck
me in with the rest Of the women IN nasty
little dark cubby hole, with wire screen
shutting II of from the chamber, because,
forsooth women are not allowed in the sacred
precincts OF that legislative body | peeped
through those wires for about IA minute, and
feeling that the whole crowd Was a lot of
monkeys in cage left the place thoroughly
disguised.
London is not city Of parks, as Paris is,
but it has many, and one may walk through
several miles Of shaded avenues from point
almost at Trafalgar square, through the Mall,
Green park, st. James and Hyde park to
kensington. Regents park to Primrose hill
is another stretch but Hyde park is the luIn-
tum spot and there the swells 60 10 drive and
ride and walk, and there "a cat may look at
a king" and "a dog may bay the moon" or
words to that effect. Rotten row. famous i'll
fashionable circles, is the road where they
ride, and in the season it Is full of men.
women and grooms on horseback. 1t is n
mile or So in length, a hundred feet wide and
is three or four inches deep in dirt, so the
horses will have good, soft hooilng. The best
riders usually are the grooms, next are the
ladies and lastly the men.
"Why do they call it Rotten rowi" said
Dickey, as We sat watching the riders one
morning.
at was the favorite place of Charles II +.
said /, "and was called Route en- Roi (kings
road, which later became corrupted into
Rotten row"
Il h. said she with "A shrug Of disgust,
Just like an Englishman. When thing is
corrupted it is rotten, 50 lie calls the corrup
ton of Route eli Roi. Rotten row. Well,
it may lie expressive, but he might have made
it more euphonic by calling 1t 'De'ayed Av-
enue,' 'Putres,ent PATH or something like
that, with BoStoniam twang to it,
Every hody, from Mrs Wales down, find
Hyde Park plenty good enough, and the